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Jamie Loftus was born in Boston and has been working in the general area ever since, often wearing her mom's maternity jacket from 1992. She's thrilled to be joining BDCwire as a staff writer and also performs all around the country as a standup and sketch performer.

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Jon Stewart isn’t quite done riffing on the news. Nor is he done making good news of his own.

For the past three years, Jon Stewart has been using The Daily Show to train veterans for backstage jobs. With his tenure at the show ending, Stewart is now encouraging his fellow entertainers to carry the torch.

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and his mother were on an early Sunday morning flight, according to his Instagram.

On Thursday, comedian Stephen Colbert donated over $800,000 to the teachers of South Carolina, funding every teacher-driver DonorsChoose project in the state in full.

By selling the set from his iconic Comedy Central juggernaut The Colbert Report, and with the help of Morgridge Family Foundation and education technology company ScanSource, he funded almost 1,000 projects at 375 schools in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week. More

Many of esteemed artist Frida Kahlo’s belongings were shut away from the world following her death 1954. Her husband, Diego Rivera, locked them in a bathroom in their Mexico City home, and demanded that the items not be removed until fifteen years after his death.

Emily McDowell is an artist and cancer survivor. After overcoming Hodgkin’s lymphoma in her early twenties, the illustrator sought to help those currently suffering from serious illnesses using her art. Enter “Empathy Cards.”More

As I type this, there are men in America who dress up and perform as Shrek every night for a living.

Soliders fight overseas for these Shreks. These Shreks are taxed by their government accordingly for their Shrek-related activities. These Shreks are our fathers, our brothers, our tour guides at local museums when productions of Shrek aren’t happening. They are us, if we were Shrek.

As I type this, there is also an editor who would allow an adult writer to see Shrek: The Musical five times in a row at Wheelock Family Theatre in a mentally taxing endurance activity we’ll call #shrekweek — an action that makes it hard for me to look in the mirror. That is, until I put on my Shrek ears, which are hilarious.

So how has Shrek, a film intended as a sucker-punch to Disney fairytale juggernauts and loaded with early-aughts topical references, somehow followed us all the way into 2015?